CVE-2004-2549

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Nortel Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Point (AP) 2220, 2221, and 2225 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a TCP request with a large string, followed by 8 newline characters, to (1) the Telnet service on TCP port 23 and (2) the HTTP service on TCP port 80, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Nortel Wlan Access Point 2220: all versions
Nortel Wlan Access Point 2221: all versions
Nortel Wlan Access Point 2225: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-03/0055.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/11034
http://securitytracker.com/id?1009294
http://www.osvdb.org/4128
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9787
http://www116.nortelnetworks.com/docs/bvdoc/wlan/216109a.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15373
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-03/0055.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/11034
http://securitytracker.com/id?1009294
http://www.osvdb.org/4128
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9787

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